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If you are a parent of a school age kid in the U.S., it’s hard to avoid the back-to-school marketing that is in full swing, even with a few weeks of summer vacation left. The last thing most kids want in the middle of a sunny August day is to be...

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San Francisco city officials say they are moving to block purchases of Apple desktops and laptops, by all municipal agencies, after the company removed a green electronics certification from its products.

Originally posted at Global Exchange, an international human rights organization dedicated to promoting social, economic and environmental justice around the world. The Occupy demonstrations have raised a central issue that we must confront: how does capital get invested and who is controlling the process?

ORIGINALLY POSTED BY THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMANE EDUCATION From the time we arise in the morning until after we fall asleep, we participate in a continuous cycle of using stuff that affects ourselves, other people, animals and the planet. We do what we can to buy products and use stuff...

Valentine’s day is not a favorite day among my more cynical friends. They complain that the holiday has been overly commercialized and they certainly are right about that. It’s downright gross how the local stores devote whole aisles of shelf space to red plastic heart shaped stuff, often starting as...

Inspired by The Story of Electronics, hundreds of people sent letters to Lenovo President and CEO Rory Read yesterday, telling the company to green its products and “Make ‘em Safe, Make ’em Last, and Take ’em Back.” Within hours,Read got back in touch to say he “could not agree with [us] more.”...

World’s top corporations cause $2.2 trillion in environmental damage A study currently underway for the United Nations is calculating the cost of pollution and other environmental damage caused by the 3,000 biggest public companies in the world. The study, which will be published this summer, has found that the economic...

I want to pause in the midst of the much needed debate about climate change solutions, as I do every December 2nd -3rd to remember Bhopal. Last night was the 25th anniversary of the disaster in Bhopal, India, where a Union Carbide pesticide plant released 27 tons of toxic chemical into a crowded sleeping city, killing 8,000 immediately and injuring...